presentation to SAP community on how the 8+ year history of ghd on the SAP Hybris ecommerce platform has enabled us to increase both the pace of change and drive more revenue. You may be surprised to learn some of the key factors.
2. INCREASING PACE OF CHANGE
• ghd est. 2001
• purchase for £450m 2016
• Part of Coty inc £9bn 20k people
• ghd, a leader in premium
hair styling appliances
• x1 ecommerce site ghdhair.com
• x13 domestic stores
• digital is core
https://www.coty.com/brands
8. Commerce Platform
Cloud Platform Hosting
Enterprise IT Systems
Customers
PIM
Responsive UI
Search Merch
Built & supported
24x7 by
Mobile Desktop In-store
Payments
Performance
Monitoring
ERP WMS CRM BI
SAPHybrisImplementation
apis
CMS
Partners
9.
10. THRIVING WITH DIGITAL
Look @ the differential
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/engaged-vs-disengaged-employees-anil-ramnani
11. "Imagination is more important
than knowledge. For knowledge is
limited, whereas imagination
encircles the world"
Albert Einstein
From Reddit
TRushmoore
https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Talk:Albert_Einstein_quote
12. INCREASING PACE OF CHANGE
• CX
• Process
• simple, simple, simple
• OOTB
• self contained/documenting processes
• by delivering small we deliver big
• marginal gains & customer focus
https://www.ghdhair.com
14. THRIVING WITH DIGITAL
• Self disruption
• Don’t wait for an invitation to this party … YOLO
• Create psychological safe environments
• When was the last time you did something truly new?
(exercise: do something new)
assumptions
are questions
fail fast &
try harder
experience
something new
15. THRIVING WITH DIGITAL
Ideas need time to cycle but be quick … automotive, building, computing, software, …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martian_(film)
Editor's Notes
The destination changes to be sure to invest in the journey not just the destination